Voltage-induced swelling and collapse of weak polyelectrolyte brushes

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The voltage-induced actuation of a weak polyelectrolyte brush is an example of an ultrathin, remotely controlled responsive surface coating. We propose a continuation of experiment RB910277 to go on with the study of the voltage-induced swelling and collapse of poly(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) weak polybase brushes. We plan to use a silicon liquid cell and an increased silicon wafer size to decrease the measurement background and increase the useful neutron flux, in order to measure the structure of the brushes on a timescale of 30 seconds to 1 minute, as they respond to applied voltages. We request a small modification of an INTER motion controller to provide a fully automated, bipolar voltage supply.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079452
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079452
Provenance
Creator Professor Richard Jones; Dr Andrew Parnell; Dr Mike Weir; Dr Simon Martin
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-07-20T08:14:44Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-07-22T05:08:51Z